IACCENT: Big Blue review Tan Time ~-£:I Sunny and warmer today, with a ~ \ high near 85. Fair and warmer 1 i IVIEWPOINT: Shed that ND apathy tonight, low near 65. J THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1988 VOL. XXII, NO. 8 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's ND sophomore hit near JACC By MARK MCLAUGHLIN Senior Staff Reporter "We all heard this big 'pop'," said sophomore Jennifer Ric- A Notre Dame student bards, who was waiting on line remained in fair condition at for football tickets with Mack­ St. Joseph Medical Center Wed- ett near gate 10 of the JACC. nesday night after being hit by "Then we l?oked around and a car on Juniper Road near the saw her behmd the car. There Joyce ACC. was a Jot of bloo_d, an~ her leg Lisa Mackett, a sophomore looked really tw1s~ed.. from Knott Hall was crossing Mackett was m mtens1ve towards the JACC around 2:40 care Wednesday night at St. p.m. on Wednesday when a car Josep_h M~dicB:l Cent_e~, and traveling north on Juniper was_ hsted m fa~r cond1bon. struck her, knocking her onto Richards said _later that the front windshield and then Mackett had sustamed a bro­ over the car. Mackett then ken right leg and had lost a lot landed on the rear window of of blood but was otherwise in the car, shattering it ' and fell good condition. Eyewitnesses to the ground, according to eyewitnesses. see MACKEn, page 6 Construction error ~:··_:~~-~. closes Rolfs pool ing the bottom of the pool at Staying cool The Observer I Zoltan Ury By DAWN MEYER News Staff the expansion joints. It is a Freshman Matt Heslin keeps cool between classes by the Clarke Memorial Fountain. lengthy process because the A construction error has left caulk must set for a period of the Olympic-sized pool in Rolfs time in order to dry and be Aquatic Center temporarily cleaned, said Stark. Once the Delta 727 crashes on takeoff closed, said Dennis Stark, work is completed, the pool will director of aquatics. take five to six days to fill. Associated Press termining how many babies apparently was an engine prob­ Repair work on a problem "At this time it is impossible were aboard, he said. lem," Fred Rollins, Delta's dis­ dating back almost three years to project when the caulking GRAPEVINE, Texas- A Thirty-four survivors were trict manager for marketing in has delayed the pool's reopen­ will be completed," he said. "It Delta Air Lines 727 jetliner hospitalized, Berry said. Sur­ Salt Lake City, where the plane ing indefinitely, Stark said. was to have been ready by the burst into flames as it crashed vivors included the captain and was headed. The pool was drained July 21 15th of August." on takeoff Wednesday, killing two other pilots, one of whom A 16-member NTSB panel ar­ of this year so repairs could be In the meantime, the pool at 13 people. But 94 survived as was working as a flight en­ rived late Wednesday from made, said Stark, who also the Rockne Memorial is being passengers, some cradling in­ gineer, he said. Washington to bolster a three­ teaches physical education. used by the varsity swim team fants, scrambled out of the "We were just terrified," person team from Fort Worth. "It was a construction prob­ and classes usually held at shattered fuselage. said passenger Mona Member Lee Dickinson would lem that should have been done Rolfs. Thomason. "We jumped on the not speculate on a cause, but from the beginning," he said. While swimming classes and At mid-afternoon, six hours wing, but it looked like we were said the team would remain at Workers wanted to correct the swim team practice will con­ after the crash in hazy sunshine jumping into a pit of fire." the scene at least five to seven problems last year, but repairs tinue at the Rockne Memorial, at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, Investigators had no imme­ days. He said it was uncertain at that time would have inter­ non-varsity sports such as Delta spokesman Bill Berry in diate indication of the cause of if the aircraft flight data recor­ fered with the Special Olym­ water aerobics have been dis­ Atlanta said 13 fatalities, in­ the crash, said Michael Ben­ der, known as the "black box," pics held on campus. "If this continued until work at Rolfs is cluding an infant, were con­ son, a spokesman for the Na­ had been recovered. happened last year, we'd be in completed. firmed but that the numbers of tional Transportation Safety Spokesmen for Boeing and deep trouble." "The only thing we can do is victims could continue to fluc­ Board in Washington. for Pratt & Whitney, the man- The repair involves recaulk- sit tight," Stark said. tuate. The count was compl­ "Apparently the pilot made icated by the difficulty in de- an attempt to abort .... There see DELTA, page 6 Walesa calls for end to strikes Associated Press the government in the near fu­ the strike committes for the ac­ ture, according to a statement tual ending of the negotiation GDANSK, Poland- Solidarity read by an aide, Piotr of other postulates and the leader Lech Walesa called on Konopka. suspension of the strikes," Poland's striking workers Walesa said he raised the im­ Walesa's statement said. Wednesday night to settle their portance of Solidarity in his After giving the Walesa local grievances and end the three-hour meeting with statement, Konopka added: "I country's worst labor unrest in Poland's interior minister, hope that it will appear as a seven years. Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak-his first historical day." Walesa made the appeal with government leaders in six Konopka said Walesa con­ hours after meeting with gov­ years. ferred with strikers at the idled ernment leaders on the wave "The participants in the dis­ Lenin shipyard, where the of strikes that began Aug. 16 cussion recognize that all af­ Solidarity leader still works as calling for higher wages and fairs related to trade union an electrician, and the strike the legalization of Solidarity. movement would be discussed there could end very soon. He said the national issues of by the round-table," Walesa Strikes are in effect at nine guaranteeing trade union said. other worksites across the pluralism and legalizing his "I propose therefore that we country. outlawed trade federation suspend the current strikes. I Walesa also went to the would be taken up in round­ accepted further talks with Imagine this n. a--;Zobn Ury table discussions promised by central authorities and turn to see STRIKES, page 6 The Dome as it is reflected in the doors of the Hesburgh Library . • ---------~-- ----- --------- -- -- -- page 2 The Observer Thursday, September 1, 1988 IN BRIEF Glimpse of world peace Sister Mary Ewens, O.P ., a Sinsinawa Dominican nun and former president of Edgewood College, has been appointed associate director of the University's viewed at Medjugorje Charles and Margaret Hall Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholocism by Professor Timothy I got a glimpse this summer of something I O'Meara, University provost. She has written a thought I'd never see. I traveled halfway Regis book,"The Role of the Nun in 19th Century America", around the world to a place I had never heard and has contributed articles on American sisters to a of before. What I discovered there has im­ Coccia variety of scholarly journals. Her current projects are a pressed me more than anything I've seen before News Editor book on the oral history of the Sinsinawa Dominicans or since. and a study of nuns and aging. She is also doing In July, I went to Medjugorje, a small village ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ research on a community of Eskimo nuns. -The in central Yugoslavia where six young people Observer claim to have seen the Blessed Virgin every day for the last seven years. What's important about this latest set of Marian apparitions is its message. At Lourdes Opportunities for college students to obtain (1858), Mary called for penance. The message volunteer positions in conservation and resource at Fatima (1917) was prayer and the conversion management for the coming winter and spring seasons of sinners. Mary's message at Medjugorje are now available through the Student Conservation (pronounced med-you-GOR-ee-a) re­ Association's Resource Assistant Program. These emphasizes these. positions enable selected students to participate in the The surprisingly regular apparitions in this work of government and state agencies responsible for impoverished village are the longest ever re­ the care and management of the country's national ported. Mary first appeared to four girls and parks, forests, wildnerness areas and wildlife refuges. two boys in Medjugorje on June 24, 1981. They Positions are now available with starting dates between claim she has been appearing to them ever November 1 and April 30. Interested people should send since. a postcard requesting the "1989 Resource Assistant Mary's message here is a simple one, di­ Program Listing" and an application to the Student rected to all people. When she first spoke to the Conservation Association, PO Box 550C, Charlestown, visionaries, she called herself the Queen of NH, 03603. -The Observer Peace. Mary told them she wants peace in the world and gave them ways we can achieve it. Peace, Mary said, is obtained through OF INTEREST prayer, penance, conversion and fasting. She told the visionaries that people must give up Two weeks later, six children reported seeing Football Concession Stand Packets are sin and believe God exists.